[kwlug-disc] Trace spam email back to source

Yas Adem yadem.ethio at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 11:33:51 EDT 2020


Thanks sharing Khalid. Here is the header i got from "show original"

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        Tue, 30 Jun 2020 06:57:41 -0700 (PDT)
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denied by best guess record for domain of escape01 at rogers.com)
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:55:40 +0000 (UTC)
From: MARK GOWING <escape01 at rogers.com>
Reply-To: MARK GOWING <escape01764 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <776184292.179935.1593525340251 at mail.yahoo.com>
Subject: Request..
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Hello,
How are you doing? I hope you're good.. I need your assistance please kindl=
y get back to me.=C2=A0Thank you.Mark

Regards
Yasin



On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:19 AM Khalid Baheyeldin, <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> Yes, it is sad ...
>
> A while back, I started putting examples of scam emails on my web site, as
> a warning.
>
>
> https://baheyeldin.com/technology/technology-in-society/internet-scams-and-fraud.html
>
> The sadder thing is that people mistake my site for other people, from
> Cairo hotels, the Library of Alexandria, all the way to the Sultan of Brunei
>
>
> https://baheyeldin.com/technology-in-society/mistaken-identity-how-some-people-confuse-my-site-for-others.html
>
> I got many emails about people who have actually paid scammers for lottery
> winnings or other scams, and asking what to do next. Convincing them that
> they have been a victim of a scam is painful. Many of them are from poor
> countries and have borrowed to pay insurance/bank/taxes/courier fees in the
> hope of getting more money ...
>
> With social media, and friends posting things without basic fact checking,
> it has become even worse, and more of a futile effort ... not outright
> money scams, but scams in other aspects of life ...
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:10 AM Yas Adem <yadem.ethio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks guys. I won't spent much time on it... i was just curious.. lots
>> of old people get scams on this and really sad.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Yasin
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:00 AM Khalid Baheyeldin, <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The From address can be forged, so it is not necessarily that his email
>>> is hacked.
>>>
>>> If you look into the email headers, which in Gmail are under 'Show
>>> Original', they may give a clue as to what server it came from.
>>>
>>> But don't spend too much time on it, since it can be anything.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:51 AM Yas Adem <yadem.ethio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Guys,
>>>>
>>>> i just received an email from friend i know and interestingly reply-to
>>>> is different email address. This email is basically asking to purchase
>>>> Google Play pay gift cards for him as he is in hospital helping relative,
>>>> in short i believe his email has been hacked.  I am not expert on this
>>>> butis there a way to trace back to thier source ip.. etc..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Yasin
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> 2bits.com, Inc.
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> 2bits.com, Inc.
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